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This was always going to be a L. Im not too bothered by the outcome but the process.
I thought we lost our way (?structural, attitude, mismatched- not sure) q2 3 and 4. Inevitable to blow out on the scoreboard, but 100+ tells me nobody was able to step up. That's the depressing part for mine. Not sure what learning that affords :-\
Interesting how Bolts addresses the club.
Coming together is the beginning.
Keeping together is progress.
Working together is success.
Henry Ford.
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Our defence was hopeless today.
What’s going on with Plowman? He stuff everything he touches.
Jones and Rowe gave me the shits today.
No one bar Cripps wants to get in for hard ball gets.
Playing Murphy was akin to having one less player.
We have been fucked with injury - not Many hard bodies out there. But surely when they go to tackle they can just hang on to the player? I think all our tackles are just shrugged off.
Our next two weeks will be so ugly, I am actually worried for B.B. because I don’t think he is to blame. He was feral at the players at 3/4 time.
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Little to get too obsessed about other than we stynk it up everywhere. Bar Cripps, the players with the most touches generally don't and didn't use it well in a midfield of headless chooks, a back line that can't kick and a forward line that...didn't see much action
Boy its getting hard to keep the youngster keen on Carlton. Attended open training yesterday, but even that was pretty underwhelming, with only a few players sticking around to sign stuff.
Bad signs of lethargy and giving up are there and its not even halfway through a very grim season. Brisbane currently leading...
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When I heard Bolton gave them a spray I thought it would be interesting to see the response.
There wasn't one.
Dissapointing.
Jones was back to his old self after quarter time.
Jed lamb, McKay and cripps aside everyone else did some really poor things at times which just kept being very costly.
"everything you know is wrong"
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(05-20-2018, 06:22 AM)Vivian link Wrote:Little to get too obsessed about other than we stynk it up everywhere. Bar Cripps, the players with the most touches generally don't and didn't use it well in a midfield of headless chooks, a back line that can't kick and a forward line that...didn't see much action
Boy its getting hard to keep the youngster keen on Carlton. Attended open training yesterday, but even that was pretty underwhelming, with only a few players sticking around to sign stuff.
Bad signs of lethargy and giving up are there and its not even halfway through a very grim season. Brisbane currently leading...
Viv, let the kid support another team as an interim measure, and get him to come back to the Blues once the rebuild is over, circa 2057.
05-20-2018, 06:30 AM
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A couple of times during the game, when they showed the injured, suspended and out of form sitting in the grandstand I was reminded of an old Wayne Brittain quote from 2002.
Quote:"I remember one game walking out behind the team as they ran out on to the ground. All these injured blokes in a Carlton uniform were walking up to the grandstand. I looked at them and thought: 'There's 15 or 16 blokes who would have been in the best 18. There's my team; who has just run out out there?' That was the first time I thought: 'This is going to be a tough day.'
Injuries, suspension and the out of form affect a young side like our current one to a far greater extent than a good side.
That's not an excuse just an observation
Today was terrible....and it hardly explains a 100 point loss...
The reasons for that are many and some obscure.
We beat an Essendon side who beat Geelong....but you wouldn't give us much of a chance next week.
Just goes to show form-lines are meaningless and it's more about 'mentally' turning up to play.
For whatever reason we didn't today.
....and that's disturbing for the weeks ahead.
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Murphy couldn't have possibly been right.Plantar fasciitis is a prick of an injury that takes months or even longer. What is wrong with our people bringing back injured players. Kennedy, who's obviously never been right since round 1, Marchbank now Murphy all to struggle because they were far from ready to return. We are run by friggen idiots.
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(05-20-2018, 06:30 AM)Lods link Wrote:A couple of times during the game, when they showed the injured, suspended and out of form sitting in the grandstand I was reminded of an old Wayne Brittain quote from 2002.
Injuries, suspension and the out of form affect a young side like our current one to a far greater extent than a good side.
That's not an excuse just an observation
Today was terrible....and it hardly explains a 100 point loss...
We beat an Essendon side who beat Geelong....but you wouldn't give us much of a chance next week.
Just goes to show form-lines are meaningless and it's more about 'mentally' turning up to play.
For whatever reason we didn't today.
....and that's disturbing for the weeks ahead.
Nice perspective lods.
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Outmuscled, outpressured, outskilled, outtackled, outrun,outthought,outplayed and I'm sure this list could be added to but I can't be bothered, tonight anyway. 
Reality always wins in the end.
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(05-20-2018, 06:36 AM)cookie2 link Wrote:Outmuscled, outpressured, outskilled, outtackled, outrun,outthought,outplayed and I'm sure this list could be added to but I can't be bothered, tonight anyway.
You can add outcoached too....
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